FILE- In this Oct. 30 2012 file photo provided by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the South Ferry subway station in New York City is filled with seawater and debris from Superstorm Sandy. More than three decades before Sandy, a state law and a series of legislative reports began warning New York politicians to prepare for a storm of historic proportions, spelling out scenarios eerily similar to what actually happened. (AP Photo/ Metropolitan Transportation Authority, File)

FILE- In this Oct. 30 2012 file photo provided by the Metropolitan...

FILE- In this Oct. 31, 2102 file photo provided the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, water floods the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel, formerly known as the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, during Superstorm Sandy, in New York. More than three decades before Sandy, a state law and a series of legislative reports began warning New York politicians to prepare for a storm of historic proportions, spelling out scenarios eerily similar to what actually happened. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Patrick Cashin, File)

FILE- In this Oct. 31, 2102 file photo provided the Metropolitan...

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2012 file photo, a police officer directs cars to gas pumps outside a gas station in the Brooklyn borough of New York. New York City was forced into odd/even gas rationing after a gasoline shortage took hold in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. More than three decades before Superstorm Sandy, a state law and a series of legislative reports began warning New York politicians to prepare for a storm of historic proportions, spelling out scenarios eerily similar to what actually happened. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2012 file photo, a police officer directs...

FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2012 file photo, a beachside house, deemed uninhabitable by the New York City Department of Buildings, is left in ruins in the Belle Harbor neighborhood of the Rockaways, in New York. More than three decades before Superstorm Sandy, a state law and a series of legislative reports began warning New York politicians to prepare for a storm of historic proportions, spelling out scenarios eerily similar to what actually happened. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2012 file photo, a beachside house, deemed...

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2012 file photo, this aerial view shows burned-out homes in the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York. The tiny beachfront neighborhood, told to evacuate before Superstorm Sandy hit New York, burned down as it was inundated by floodwaters, transforming a quaint corner of the Rockaways into a smoke-filled debris field. More than three decades before Sandy, a state law and a series of legislative reports began warning New York politicians to prepare for a storm of historic proportions, spelling out scenarios eerily similar to what actually happened. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2012 file photo, this aerial view shows...

FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 file photo, seawater floods the entrance to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel in New York in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. More than three decades before Sandy, a state law and a series of legislative reports began warning New York politicians to prepare for a storm of historic proportions, spelling out scenarios eerily similar to what actually happened. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo, File)

FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 file photo, seawater floods...

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2012 file photo, a New York City Police Department officer manages the line of cars waiting for gasoline, in New York. New York City was forced into odd/even gas rationing after a gasoline shortage took hold in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. More than three decades before Sandy, a state law and a series of legislative reports began warning New York politicians to prepare for a storm of historic proportions, spelling out scenarios eerily similar to what actually happened. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2012 file photo, a New York City Police...

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2012 file photo, Staff Sgt. Nathan Roczen fills a gas canister for a member of the public who had waited in line for three hours for free gas delivered by the Federal Emergency Management Administration at the West Brighton armory in the Staten Island borough of New York. Superstorm Sandy left the region with wide-spread gasoline shortages as stations lacked electricity to run their pumps and fuel deliveries couldn't be made. More than three decades before Sandy, a state law and a series of legislative reports began warning New York politicians to prepare for a storm of historic proportions, spelling out scenarios eerily similar to what actually happened.(AP Photo/Eileen A. J. Connelly, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2012 file photo, Staff Sgt. Nathan Roczen...

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2012 file photo provided by New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, floodwaters rise above the top stair of an escalator in New York Citys South Ferry station in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. More than three decades before Sandy, a state law and a series of legislative reports began warning New York politicians to prepare for a storm of historic proportions, spelling out scenarios eerily similar to what actually happened. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Transportation Authority, File)